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@ruwmi.bsky.social I wrote about going to my local no kings in western mass www.burnsnotice.com/no-kings-cha...

you'd think nine months in reality would have set in but i still can't believe people fucking voted for this

Cover of best selling 2029 History of The Second Trump Presidency just dropped.

this motherfucker is shitting on americans and knocking out the white house walls

The grant to the right-wing Tikvah Fund is the largest in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Source: ejewishphilanthropy.com/neh-awards-i...

Dicks out at the airport now

“the nyt piece doesn’t even mention no kings” is maybe not the argument winner you think it is

For those interested in the Maine Democratic primary race between Janet Mills and Graham Platner, I strongly recommend this piece by @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social: blackgirlinmaine.com/current-even...

formula costs over $400/mo btw

the bastards are trying to take even the simple joy of cat videos away from us

this is my DARK SECRET to SUCCESS on Bluesky (but really, I genuinely just like replying to people, I am fundamentally here to have nice little chats with interesting people)

if you've got a 3D printer, you can 3D print a ton of extremely loud safety whistles for very little money!

“There are even moments when it sounds as though Thiel might be indulging in something akin to the disordered thinking associated with serious mental illness…” Disordered thinking can also be associated with hallucinogen abuse, which, as I’ve said before, I think is a factor with Thiel (and Musk).

The full context of this clip, which is making the rounds again despite being from a year and a half ago. It's not *quite* how it is being billed this time around.

had a great time chatting with @melhogan.bsky.social about digital sovereignty, the canadian context, and so much more!

interesting that both the nyt and chicago trib chose to run these the day after millions of people turned out to protest one particular side

I’ve been there twice, and both trips were life-changing. I’ve made incredible friends, and seen so much beauty in both nature and the people. Colombia is so misunderstood.

SCOTUS is taking up an interesting case: whether the federal ban on gun ownership for "habitual" drug users is legal. The background of the case they're hearing is interesting. This law has been regularly used by the DOJ to get people they really want gotten but can't place the charges they want.

Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times

About 7.5 million children ages 3 to 21 are served under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act. The Trump administration has laid off almost every staffer responsible for enforcing it. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...

Follow David, a labor leader in California who has been targeted for political persecution by the Trump regime.

This is one of the first things you see in the airport in Medellín.

hot take I sort of believe: index fund investing is immoral. you're supposed to be paying attention to your money

The ACA is a flawed law that began with a flawed premise and concretized health insurance industry power. It is ALSO a law that has normalized CRITICAL healthcare provisions AND saved MILLIONS of lives—and that’s with its reach being sabotaged by the GOP refusal to expand Medicaid in red states.

[beastie boys] It's a mission better suited for Don QuiXOTE Try'na ban tortillas like a Big XII TOADY Stead'a stoppin' those students from throwin' ROTI Bribe the referees with cash from uncle CODY

Remember when “basket of deplorables” was a campaign ending faux pas? Anyways the brown liquid could be anything, could be coffee

No, but come to think of it, I may have dated a less hot version of him once

“A lot of people are making their comebacks in a really surreptitious way. There isn’t an overt discussion that they’ve had about their past behavior or how they’re thinking differently about their work or about their relationship to women or employees” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

The Capitol bit is particularly good.

hard to think of a better example of what's happened to twitter than noah smith going from "contrarian guy who sucked and held some shitty views" to "open genocide denial and racism on main"

For those of you who are wondering, the most important opsec lesson to take from the First Wap story is that if your threat model includes a government, do not take your cell phone with you to locations or meetings you don't want them to know about.

"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese

SEATTLE! And rich weirdos from other places willing to fly in! @johnroderick.bsky.social and I are doing a big live farewell OMNIBUS at @townhallseattle.bsky.social on November 8. Music! Surprises! Many goods and cheese! Tickets are going fast at townhallseattle.org/event/omnibus

Yet another example of why a SECULAR government is the only viable foundation for freedom of (and from) religion. We should support secular governance with our full chests, regardless of our faith.

I don't even know if it would be useful but I really want IL-9 primary polling

liberalism makes people say such normal things to leftists

Not to be THAT dictionary, but… It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’ It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’ It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

The City of Charlottesville installed uh... a bollard on our property

the administration has been able to get away with clown shoes lawyering in many important cases because the supreme court is run by partisan republicans whose favorite game is legal calvinball but john roberts is not coming to save their clown shoes criminal prosecutions

when i was younger we had different things than the things people have now

I prefer political leaders who don’t shit on the American people.

caring for an infant by yourself is hard but doing it with a cold that that infant, who is no longer sick, gave you… i have been living in a nursing bra and basketball shorts for 2 days. my meals are whatever i can grab in the 30 seconds it takes to warm a bottle. i fear no man, only this baby.

In fairness, I was doing this when I was 20

"I know a guy who does this completely impractical opsec thing, so it's totally doable" is the "let me share this totally true story of a thing that happened to a friend of my cousin" of opsec discussions.

With thanks to @s.ly and @chocchip.bsky.social here's what I was remembering. It was in fact Taibbi, but his characterization was "racist" rather than "crazy." I also remember listening to it, but this is a written transcript. Memory is a funny thing! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

oh fun, did you guys know you were protesting against Our Lord And Savior this weekend? you heathens! satanists!!!

I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...

This is a grassroots campaign: “Abughazaleh reports over $1.1 million in individual contributions under $200, making up around 74% of her contribution totals. In contrast, over 90% of Biss’ campaign contributions come from big-money donations of over $200.” dailynorthwestern.com/2025/10/20/c...

For my newsletter, I wrote about how I was affected by the No Kings protest in my town. (I am no longer thinking about fleeing the country) www.burnsnotice.com/no-kings-cha...

speaking of the ACA, I'm so old I can remember when Joe Lieberman killed the public option, and Ezra Klein accused him of being "willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score," and the entire DC media fainted simultaneously

Some (very late) comments on the Peacemaker finale, and S2 as as whole. 1) It really was excellent, and I loved how James Gunn used SF/comic book tropes to explore real issues of connection, self-doubt, affection, friendship, and the self-defeating fear of all those things.

Major news outlets went really out of their way to avoid saying shit/poop. "Brown liquid," "appeared to be feces," "bursts of brown matter." Just say what it was: an AI video of Trump in a jet dumping shit on America, that's literally the video www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...

this book is insanely good

because the KS is doing so well, I'm going to dip into my own profit a bit and upgrade the paper to slightly weightier, 100# stock (the paper Glenn's How Comics Were Made book used, if you have that), which just makes it feel a bit nicer in the hand.

Perhaps I'm crazy, but I tend to think that it's a bad thing when the President lies about things we can all see. And it's *not great* that many in the media are so eager to let him play up those lies.

Truly had no idea until after I posted lol

The turnout at No Kings rallies across Illinois’ Ninth District and the country gave me hope for the future of our democracy. Stay tuned for more clips from my conversations with voters!

i did it i went to the doctor i am Going on T

This is also the reason the abbreviation for ‘hertz’ is ‘Hz,’ as it’s named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.

Boyle's agenda is why Andreessen Horowitz hired a partner whose only credential is that he strangled one of my neighbors to death.

Just saw that Gianmarco Soresi is on this week's episode of Fear& and clicked so fast

"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.

one of my absolute favorite things is when musicians lose their shit at Republicans for appropriating their songs and I am particularly delighted to see Kenny Loggins joining the list

FS1 bunching up its windows Saturday resulted in Nevada-New Mexico kicking off on FS2 and continuing to be aired there until the two-minute timeout:

the fox sports promo where they state that consuming Barstool content will make your brain bigger is.. well that's certainly something

NEW: James Comey's legal team pushes back against the govt's suggestion that his lead defense attorney Patrick Fitzgerald should be disqualified. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Prev. govt filing: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Attention transit nerds! The Flytrap loves writing about this stuff. We've dropped the paywall on all of our urban planning articles today!

one hundred! one hundred fifty five! one thousand! ten gazillion percent! the christmas present apocalypse is going to be fun

Made a short doc about a man in LA who still makes neon signs. He calls it “the lost and found art.” Check out the full thing on YouTube: youtu.be/SSNfDodj674?...

My org We Are Somebody is a leader of the Target Boycott. We have been quietly organizing in the labor space for a little over two years for broad working class solidarity. We all gotta stick together.

At 404 Media we're starting to experiment with some longer video stuff. Very excited about what we may do now. It turns out when you own the company you can just do stuff. Here's a short doc on the man keeping the lost art of neon glowing alive: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSNf...

Cool, where's The Elephant Man?

Former NFL running back Doug Martin died in police custody: www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

When presidents have (and haven't) invoked the Insurrection Act. www.pbump.net/o/trump-want...

I remember a pub radio conversation during the Tea Party era with David Gergen and a left leaning journalist who I remember as being Matt Taibbi (?!) Journalist: “These people don’t care about taxes. They’re upset because there’s a black President.” (1/2)

Little joy update: I am exhausted because my little orange cat jumped into bed at 2 AM and purred so loud she woke me up. This is not the first time it’s happened and I will never be mad about it.

NEW RESEARCH confirms: Countering far-right messaging by repeating it mainstreams extremist ideas and amplifying extremist terminology cedes the framing of the issues to the right. (I’ll add that social media “dunking” only serves to spread undesired content.) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This commercial has lived in my head for decades. "Cat shit is not sold in stores" youtu.be/vYm1qIRnqQk?...

unless i know you the response to "erm, typo?" is the immediate block

the truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king

You're not wrong, but also, this polling kinda underscores the fact Mamdani would have a real chance even in a one on one with Cuomo. Also, I would never accuse Eric Adams of having an "ideology," but Curtis kind of does and he's really not down with Cuomo. All this stuff has just been fantasy!

"According to the land-use notice issued to ICE’s landlord last month, observers outside the facility who track who enters and leaves noted 25 instances over a 10-month period in which ICE detained people for too long."

Rent and groceries are too high, and the amount people make is too low. Talk to your coworkers about how much you all make, talk about the issues you are facing financially, these things are not shameful. Working class Americans from all backgrounds must stick together.

Remarkably, Trump’s malevolence, arrogance, and hatred of the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence have resulted in even more gains for Xi than Putin, as the president of the United States does everything he can to make China the superpower of the 21st century and beyond.

You don’t have to take this bait.

The NY Post just published a "bombshell NYC mayoral poll" showing that, if this race was completely different than the one we have, it might be different. Hard to think of another instance where a big media outlet was doing fantasy polling this late in a race. nypost.com/2025/10/20/u...

Notably, aiming to make up for her own knowledge and biases, Lane chooses to spend the interview rehashing third-party attack lines against Superman, ventriloquizing his enemies to try to push him into saying something that would allow her to write about conflict rather than substance. She's a pro!

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability. www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

New from 404 Media: the same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials say they have personal data of tens of thousands more government officials, including thousands NSA, more in intel community. They sent me data from a dizzying list of agencies www.404media.co/hackers-say-...

i haven't seen tron: ares yet but i'm saving "more like jared deleto" for later

Normal folks are cutting off friends and family for being fascists and there’s Booker saying cheese next to a war criminal in the middle of doing a genocide, which Booker also refuses to call a genocide! It’s not like many other Dem senators are better but he really let me down.

What is “satirical” about shitting on the American public, Mike? What “point” is that proving? Why do you have the moral fiber of a weasel on meth, Mike?

It’s not perception it’s reality. Democrats haven’t done shit but sell us out. @booker.senate.gov got up and did that 25 hour speech and then immediately wrecked all good will by doing a photo op with Bibi Netanyahu. It must be a real bummer for Dem senators that this shit no longer flies.

The former Marion, Kansas police chief who ordered a raid on the newspaper that was investigating him is set to stand trial for telling a witness to delete text message evidence (via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social)

Pattently, anti-Elvis.

"...Trump noted that one benefit (to him) of invoking it would be to shut down the courts. This is not just a threat to the sovereignty of states. It is, explicitly, a threat to the coequal status of the courts, up to and including SCOTUS. That may make them view this threat differently."

if trump were a KING you'd all be in the DUNGEON gotcha libs

If money were really the issue, Republicans would be better off funding the vital health care program at the heart of the shutdown. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/governm...

i have actually. thanks anyway